Senior Robotics Software Engineer
charge roboticsSan Leandro (CA)
Senior Robotics Software Engineer
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charge roboticsSan Leandro (CA)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Charge Robotics Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms. Demand for new solar projects is booming but today's construction companies can't keep up due to limited labor resources. Charge Robotics thought this was insane, so they started working on robots to directly address this bottleneck and speed up the world's transition to renewables. Charge is a fast-moving company, which means constant opportunities for learning and growth. You'll have a large impact on the direction of our company, and will be compensated accordingly. Charge Robotics is MIT-founded and backed by top generalist and climate tech investors, including Founders Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Lux Capital and Y Combinator (S21).If you're excited to work on interesting problems with direct climate impact, you're going to fit right in!
About This Role:
- As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Charge Robotics, you'll be working full-stack and playing a direct role in deploying gigawatts of clean power generation.
- What You'll Be Working On: Architecting, building, documenting, testing, and iterating on software for our robotic factory installation system
- Developing perception, motion planning, and controls software that lets our robots operate reliably in unstructured field conditions.
- Contributing to low-level software powering robotic systems in our factories and delivery vehicles, with emphasis on correctness and safety
- Controlling industrial automation hardware including linear actuators, motors, and hydraulic systems
- You: Are an experienced Python developer and comfortable with at least one lower-level language like C++, with experience writing real-time, embedded, or robotics software
Know how to instrument and develop highly performant software as a member of a team, including writing clean code, documenting it, testing it, and using version control and CIHave worked in a fast-paced startup environment before, and loved itAre excited to work with (and occasionally safely climb into) giant robots
Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work 4-5 days/week from our San Leandro HQAre open to ~10% travel to field (solar construction sites) to work directly with our product in its deployment environment
Are excited to see your work deployed onto actual solar farms!
It'd also be nice if you: Have experience working with industrial robot arms, motion planning, or automation systems
Have a 4-year degree in computer science, robotics, or a related field
Gain satisfaction from personally playing a part in mitigating climate change
Charge Robotics is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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